Shots fired, no one apparently struck, on Stamford’s West Side

Updated 6:58 pm, Thursday, September 3, 2015

STAMFORD - A man who fired a gun at another man near Carwin Park on Stamford’s West Side just after dark Wednesday night apparently missed despite getting off three slugs, police said.

Lt. Diedrich Hohn said police inquired with area hospitals Wednesday night, but no one came in with a gunshot wound. Investigators were checking video surveillance cameras around the vest pocket park Thursday in hopes of identifying the shooter.

Multiple calls were made to report the shooting Wednesday at about 7:45 p.m., Sgt. Kelly Connelly said. One 53-year-old West Main Street woman said she heard three shots, “pow, pow, pow,” Connelly quoted the woman as saying. She said she thought the gun was fired near or in Carwin Park - located near West Main Street and Spruce Street - but she had a fan on in her window and couldn’t tell exactly where the shots came from.

A 41-year-old resident told police that he saw a black man, about five-foot 10 inches tall, with an average build, wearing black pants, a black zip-up hoody with gray stripes on the arm, and black shoes, firing the gun next to Carwin Park. He said the man was firing at another black man standing next to 235 W. Main St. He said he heard the gunman say “What now,” or “What’s up,” after he finished firing the gun.

Police found three shell casings on a sidewalk that connects the park with a residential building at the corner of West Main Street and Spruce Street and investigators are processing them, Hohn said.